Aindreas Scholz’s work addresses the urgency of the climate crisis while pushing the boundaries of technical and conceptual exploration. As an artist committed to environmental responsibility, he blends 19th-century and contemporary photographic techniques to develop sustainable printing practices. Through each image, Aindreas Scholz examines the interconnectedness of humans, non-humans, and the environment. He crafts narratives […]
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Elspeth Owen is a radical, entirely original ceramic artist. Her artistic work has grown out of her position as a feminist and member of many environmental movements. These have stretched, from CND in the 1960s, to Greenham Common in the 1980s, to Extinction Rebellion today. Originally Elspeth Owen studied history at Oxford University and then worked […]
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Marcia Teusink is an American visual artist based in London, whose practice explores climate change, collapsing environments and regrowth. Her recent projects explore the colonial history of the movement of plants around the globe and the unintended consequences of this displacement through painting, installation, video and mixed media. Botanical stories Much of Marcia Teusink’s work […]
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Lynn Dennison explores our relationship with our surroundings and how we see and experience our environment. She works across several disciplines, including still and moving image, installation and collage. Her single and multiple screen videos are often based on the documentary of place, exploring themes of memory, history, nostalgia, and the boundaries between the real […]
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Addressing climate change is our biggest challenge. Discover here how we are seeking interdisciplinary approaches with our artists and partners at the centre of new networks. Join with us to share innovative ideas towards our goal of environmental sustainability. Above, wildfires in Chile & United States, pic credits, Andrew Rim; Ailen Diaz Worsening weather, cumulative […]
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The Ground Beneath Our Feet is the theme which introduces GroundWork’s annual artistic residency and summer exhibition programme. Taking the overall subject of Extraction for a third year, this time we opened it out to consider our immediate locality, from the physical to the more philosophical, from the aesthetic to the political. NOW EXTENDED TO […]
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15 October 2022 – 17 December 2022 Deep Water: Women artists innovating with a variety of media to reflect on sea water pollution and dangers to wildlife and ocean environments. Mary Blue, Aude Bourgine, Colleen Flanigan, Zena Holloway, Julia Manning, Liz McGowan, Dawn Roe, Phillipa Silcock. The entire world is in Deep Water in many […]
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An evolving exhibition and artist in residence projects: 16 July – 26 August and 2 – 30 September (closed 27 August – 1 September) Featuring works by Darren Almond, Onya McCausland, Chris Drury, Shaun Fraser, Kaitlin Ferguson, Anthony Powis, Frankie Turk, Sara Grisewood, Kathryn Maguire, Aindreas Scholz For Extraction: Loss and Restoration, GroundWork Gallery will […]
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Discover the beauty and wonder of lichen through artist Annie Woodford’s research project
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The second Japan Water conference centred on the theme of power.
and was an on-line event, Friday 25 June, 2-6pm BST. The recorded talks will soon be available on this website.
A huge ‘Extraction Art on the Edge of the Abyss’ project in the United States is ‘raising a ruckus’ globally to stop environmental damage. It began in the United States in 2018, initiated by the CODEX Foundation in Berkeley California. The late Edwin Dobb and Peter Rutledge Koch started it all. They wanted to rally […]
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Linked to: Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss GroundWork Gallery’s Extraction Project Residencies GroundWork Gallery’s extraction project residencies will involve artists and partnerships working sustainably with flint, chalk, carr stone and silica sand. We are delighted to be part of the Extraction Art on the Edge of the Abyss programme. It is […]
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Simon Read plays a pioneering role as an artist who engages seriously with environmental issues. In doing so, he works across many disciplines. For many years he lived ‘environmentally’, on a seagoing barge. He uses his teaching and research in higher education at Middlesex University to promote and network environmentally. Simon’s art consisting of drawings, […]
Read moreGroundWork Gallery for art and environment. Through exhibitions and residencies, we campaign about nature, sustainability and climate change. Addressing climate change is our biggest challenge, discover here how artists are seeking new approaches. Join with us to share innovative ideas towards our goal of environmental sustainability. GroundWork Gallery shows work by contemporary artists who care […]
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